But the losses on AT&T’s traditional TV front are currently being offset by the DirecTV Now net new customers. In the past quarter, the service added 312,000 more customers to reach 1.46 million total subscribers.

AT&T tells us that customers can pause live TV, but only for five or 10 seconds. After that, when customers hit play they will return to the live portion of the stream. You can pause video on demand. Another limit that might concern families is that DirecTV Now only allows two concurrent streams per account.

The DVR has been in testing since last year, with AT&T in seemingly no hurry to push out the feature that's since become a baseline for live TV services, including YouTube TV, Hulu with Live TV, Sling TV and others.